ICYMI: Suffolk County DA Launches New Anti-Bias Task Force

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared earlier this week in the Patchogue Patch:

SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY — Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini announced on Monday the launch of the new Hate Crimes Task Force to work with police on bias-motivated crimes.

The news comes after three shootings that killed eight people at massage parlors in Georgia last week. The shootings led to an increase in attacks against Asian-Americans nationawide.

"Our nation is in the throes of a crisis right now in which members of non-white communities are being targeted and victimized," Sini said. "Recently, members of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community have experienced a heightened number of attacks, which goes against everything we value as Americans. We want our community to know that these acts will not be tolerated here. We will not stand to let racism go unchecked in this County, or to turn a blind eye to crimes committed out of hate and discrimination. Our message here today, collectively, is 'Not on our watch.'"

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